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"The Force is strong in my family," says Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) in the new trailer for the upcoming Star Wars: The Force Awakens, echoing a line he first said in 1983's Return of the Jedi.
"My father has it," he says, drawing the charred remains of Darth Vader's sinister breath mask from the shadows.
"I have it," he continues, resting the robotic hand which replaced the one he lost in a lightsaber duel with his father on the loyal and much-loved droid R2-D2.
"My sister has it," he finishes, before handing a lightsaber into the hand of a small child, and adding: "You have that power too."
Set to music first scored by John Williams for the original Star Wars in 1977, this is the trailer for Star Wars original fans, with Hamill's narration, glimpses of familiar characters and, finally, the first look at Harrison Ford's Han Solo and his co-pilot and friend, the wookie Chewbacca.
"Chewie, we're home," an obviously older Han Solo says in the trailer.
The new film is set approximately 30 years after the events of Return of the Jedi, in which the fallen Jedi knight Darth Vader was redeemed, the second Death Star destroyed and the Galactic Empire toppled.
The new trailer was released, along with some details of the upcoming Star Wars film's characters and setting at a four-day Star Wars convention, Celebration, in Anaheim, California.
The director of the highly anticipated Star Wars reboot, J.J. Abrams, who has who has been working on the film for the last year at Pinewood Studios in London and on location in Abu Dhabi, appeared at the convention.
Key among the new details Abrams released is that the desert planet which was first glimpsed in an earlier trailer is not Tattooine, as first assumed by many fans, but another desert planet named Jakku.
Abrams revealed the film would focus on Rey (Daisy Ridley), Finn (John Boyega) and another character, an X-Wing pilot named Poe Dameron and played by Oscar Isaac.
The characters names were first hinted at in a series of trading cards for the film which were released this month.
All three actors appeared at Celebration, but were cautious about leaking details without Abrams approval.
Abrams said the film would open on Jakku, where Ridley's character is, hiding among the scavenged remains of old starships. She then meets an apparently AWOL stormtrooper named Finn (Boyega).
"She is a scavenger in a ship graveyard, she's very solitary," Ridley told the crowd. "Until she meets another character and an adventure begins."
Isaac described his character as "the best fricking pilot in the galaxy", before adding: "He's been sent on a mission by a certain princess. He comes across Mr John Boyega's character and their fates are forever intertwined."
Rey - which is Spanish for "king" - might be a clue that Ridley's character is, as many have suggested, Princess Leia's daughter. It may also explain why "a certain princess" sends Poe Dameron to Jakku.
One key character about which Abrams and Lucasfilm's Kathleen Kennedy remained tight-lipped is the film's villain, Kylo Ren, believed to be the role Adam Driver is playing.
In the earlier trailer and for a split-second in the new trailer, he is the character wielding the "cross-guard" lightsaber.
Other key cast include Andy Serkis, Gwendolyn Christie (from Game of Thrones), the Oscar-winner Lupita Nyong'o and the iconic Max Von Sydow.
One of the highlights of Celebration was an on-stage appearance from original cast-members Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker), Carrie Fisher (Princess Leia), Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca) and Anthony Daniels (C3-P0).
All four appear in the new film, though Fisher said her iconic hairstyle from 1977 - the "side buns" - would not return. "The buns are tired now," Fisher told the crowd. "So she's probably not going to have the futuristic buns."
Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens will be released in cinemas in December, 2015.